These are just 8 of the Native women you should have learned about in history class

minoritiesinpublishing:

Check out this list of fascinating and amazing Native women who have been erased and ignored in history for far too long. 

Zitkala-sa (1876–1938)

Zitkala-sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (Yankton Sioux) was a writer and activist who used her work to promote respect for Native religion and culture, as well as civil rights. She worked with Winnebago artist Angel DeCora early in her writing career, and her books and stories brought attention to Native issues. An accomplished musician, she was also the first Native person to compose an opera, Sun Dance Opera.

Buffalo Calf Road Woman (1850s? – 1879)

Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Northern Cheyenne) saved her brother, Chief Comes in Sight, at the Battle of Rosebud, rallying the Cheyenne to defeat Gen. George Crook and his troops. In 2005, after a 100-year silence on the battle, Cheyenne storytellers revealed that she also struck the blow that knocked Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer off his horse just before his death at the Battle of Little Bighorn (aka “Custer’s Last Stand”)—the most successful battle waged by Native warriors against U.S. troops in the West.

Lyda Conley (1869 – 1946)

Lyda Conley (Wyandot) was one of the first female Native attorneys. Along with her sisters Sarah, Helena, and Ida, she worked to protect and preserve the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City. She and her sisters set up a shack on the grounds of the cemetery, armed with muskets, to prevent the sale of the land.

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Elizabeth (Wanamaker) Peratrovich | Florence Owen Thompson | Susan La Flesche Picotte | Mary Golda Ross | Maria Tallchief 

These are just 8 of the Native women you should have learned about in history class

apathetic-revenant:

smilesandvials:

appropriately-inappropriate:

For the record, if you’re out walking and you see a depression in the ground where the grass is brighter green and there’s lots of clovers, azaleas and other nitrogen-fixing plants,

KEEP WALKING.

It could be a body dump.

…I really expected this to be about the dangers of walking into a faerie ring and being offered food by faw folk and foolishly accepting, leaving you trapped in faerieland forever for having cosumed the offerings of a host, a warning that I was given as a child (and nobody I go to school with was, those kids are gonna end up in some troublel.

But this is interesting too.

I mean, given what faeries get up to, there’s a strong likelihood of it being both.

memes that would exist if ancient greece had tumblr

thoodleoo:

  • “blocked and reported” becomes “ritually ostracized and reported”
  • tons of pics of featherless bipeds that people claim are men
  • *picture of a random animal* is that zeus
  • callout posts about homeric heroes
  • reblogging posts from warriormale and claiming that plato wrote them
  • responding to weird asks with “i know only one thing, and that is that i know nothing”
  • instead of making gal pals jokes, people make ‘priestess of artemis’ jokes
  • *in response to mention of anyone, real or fictional, dying* “tag your iliad spoilers”
  • archaic smile reaction images in response to uncomfortable situations